ewitsme wrote:FINN IS CLIMBING ON THE TABLE AND CHAIR UNSUPERVISED REALLY BOTHERS ME! im not a mom (im only 15) but i work for my churchs toddler room and even have cousins around finns age and if theyre eating we make sure to supervise them! at church they dont have strap in seats so we sit at the snack table with them and they know not to climb on tables and chairs and my two year old cousin still sits in a booster seat with straps (idk if thats unusual or not for his age, and hes way bigger than finn) but it just bothers me how careless they are with those sorts of things! especially since eating and climbing on things is really dangerous for a child (unsupervised at least)!!
They don't even strap those kids in to shopping carts. That scares the SHIT out of me! Personal so feel free to skip.. I worked at a grocery store for several years when my husband an i were just starting out. We had this one family that would come in on a regular basis (very small family owned grocery store in a very small town, i knew 80% of the customers on a personal basis) who had a little girl (about 3yo) who was hell on wheels. She would scream and run around, knock things off shelves, run people over with the little kid sized carts we had. I dreaded seeing her come in the door bc they had zero control over that child. One day they had her in the front seat of the buggy and she start screaming that she wanted out. She was not strapped in. The parents were ignoring her (as usual) and she stood up and started JUMPING UP AND DOWN in the childs seat. The shopping cart flipped, sending her flying and she fell on the concrete slab, tiled floor right on the back of her head. Knocked her out cold, busted her head wide open. She wound up with a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and was in ICU for 3 days with brain swelling. Every time i see those kids (or any kid) not strapped in a cart or standing in or on the back of a cart (i've seen them flip for that reason too, just not any serious injury thank god) my heart rate goes up bc i will never ever forget the sound of that girl hitting the floor and the sounds she was making while she was laying there, from what i thought, dying. thank god she seems to be fine now, but it was a terrifying eye opening for me. Hopefully B&M will read this and think twice..